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SLAVE TRADE.To the Printer of the St. J. CHRONICLE. SIR,WHEN the publick, nay, when the Parliament, read Mr. Franklin’s ftate and condition of the Negroes in our We/i-India I/lands, they will be apt to pity fuch well-meaning men as Mr. Granville Sharp, who have been impofed upon by artful perfons who have finifter ends in view. Mr. Franklin has made it clear, that what I have often a/ferted in your paper is the undif-guifed truth, i. e. that Negro flaves live a life infinitely preferable to our white /laves of England, Scotland^ and Ireland. To this work, therefore, I refer the curious reader, and I /hail only give here a curious extratt from a note in his book. Mr. Franklin fays, that being with a party of his friends caught in bad weather upon one of our American I Hands, he took flicker in a publick -houfe kept by a German; upon their deliring that more wood might be brought to the fire, the brute ordered his iickly wife to go forth in the florin and fetch it ! while a young fturdy Negro wench his /lave, Ztcod by doing nothing ! upon being a/ked why he did not fend the girl rather than his wife / he replyed, that wench is worth Sol. and if /he /hould catch cold and die, it would be a great Iofs to me ; but if my wife dies, I can get another,' and perhaps money into the bargain.Your’s, c.AN ENGLISHMAN.
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London St James Chronicle or British Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Aug 08, 1789
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